An extraordinary collection of valuable autograph letters and documents ...
Subtitle: to be sold Friday and Saturday, May 19 and 20, '05 ... first session, lots 1 to 406, second session, lots 407 to 780, third session, lots 781 to end
By: catalogue compiled and sale conducted by Stan. V. Henkels
Contributors: Henkels, S. V. (Stanislaus Vincent), 1854-1926, auctioneer
Publisher: Davis & Harvey
Published: 1905
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Other titles: Valuable autograph letters and historical documents including the collection of the late William Rutter, Esq. of Philadelphia
Notes: 1350 lots.

Cover title: Valuable autograph letters and historical documents including the collection of the late William Rutter, Esq. of Philadelphia.

"Catalogue no. 934."

"... embracing many highly important historical letters and documents relating to the Revolutionary War, and other interesting epochs in the history of our country; including also fine letters of George Washington, Martha Washington, Abraham Lincoln, signers of the Declaration Independence and the Constitution, members of the Old Congress, generals in the Revolution and Civil War, officers in the Continental and United States navy, literary characters, statesmen and eminent foreigners; a series of important letters addressed to General Washington, historical documents relating to New York and Pennsylvania; and the original manuscript of Bayard Taylor's translation of Faust, as well as a collection of letters and portraits gathered by the late Wm. Rutter, Esq., of Phila. for illustrating Duyckinck's Cyclopaedia of American literature."

McKay, 5950

Place of sale: Philadelphia.

Dates of sale: May 19 and 20, 1905.